You have killed many people in this city; you have filled its streets with corpses.’

“Babylon must fall because of the Israelites she has killed, just as the earth’s mortally wounded fell because of Babylon.

ט (Tet) Those who died by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, those who waste away, struck down from lack of food.

I will fill its mountains with its dead; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines, those killed by the sword will fall.

Let them fall slain in the land of Babylonia, mortally wounded in the streets of her cities.

“You Ethiopians will also die by my sword!”

The noisy city is full of raucous sounds; the town is filled with revelry. Your slain were not cut down by the sword; they did not die in battle.

The beauty of Israel lies slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!

And its young ones devour the blood, and where the dead carcasses are, there it is.”

for she has brought down many fatally wounded, and all those she has slain are many.

Their slain will be left unburied, their corpses will stink; the hills will soak up their blood.

Your altars will be ruined and your incense altars will be broken. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols.

The slain will fall among you and then you will know that I am the Lord.

They will bring you down to the pit, and you will die violently in the heart of the seas.

“But as for you, in the midst of the uncircumcised you will be broken, and you will lie with those killed by the sword.

Among the dead they have made a bed for her, along with all her hordes around her grave. All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword, for their terror had spread in the land of the living. They bear their shame along with those who descend to the pit; they are placed among the dead.

Jacob’s sons killed them and looted the city because their sister had been violated.

your elders and judges must go out and measure how far it is to the cities in the vicinity of the corpse.

I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword will devour flesh – the blood of the slaughtered and captured, the chief of the enemy’s leaders!’”

The Israelites killed Balaam son of Beor, the omen reader, along with the others.